78) Magic, Motorcycles, and Mandelbrot: Part 2 - Motorcycles

There’s a hungry-ghost kind of thing that happens with the exertion of power.  You start to feel more entitled to exert power, because after all, you are pretty smart to have gotten all this power in the first place, and you start to depreciate “the other,” assuming more and more that other people just don’t have the same perspective as you, the same depth of understanding.  They “don’t get it.”  So, maybe you still need them as minions, to carry out your bidding, but you don’t really need people questioning your decisions anymore….